Dan Cooper

@MatthewPau37839 @JoeConchaTV I'm pretty sure he stuck to his long stated principles. The guy who ran his campaign on no new wars on the overhand betrayed all of us who voted for him.

@JoeConchaTV No one has betrayed an audience the way TC did his. TC took the $ and sold whatever soul he may have had to appeal to monsters like Hassan.

Gee, why is that?

The Iranians have proven ad nauseum that they run a basically normal country and their developing nuclear weapons would not be a matter of substantive concern worth a war. The actual concern among the neocons is that this would force Israel to moderate its policy of aggression.

@Georgehn1 @DanielLDavis1 Donald Trump has taught the world that the only way to protect yourself from American aggression to get nuclear weapons. My guess is in the next couple of years we're going to see a whole bunch of countries go nuclear. If it leads to peace, I'm all for it.

These low lives, outside and inside the administration, don't understand that they are creating more terrorists than they are eliminating. They are putting a target on every American's back, with their behavior; surprise attacks in the middle of negotiations twice, massacring 168 little girls at school on day one, Working shoulder to shoulder with an immoral army, who is now looting houses in southern Lebanon, blowing up whole villages, destroying The statue of Jesus, and targeting reporters, hospitals, and rescuers...

I often take the elite in America to task because of their disconnection from reality and their preference for fantasy outcomes. But there’s another, darker aspect to the elite as well: the absence of morals. When a retired general on national television can openly talk about assassinating leaders of our adversaries that reach conclusions we don’t like, and then he considers that “reasonable“ and none of the hosts on the network so much is bat an eye – that shows how far we have fallen from even pretending to care about morality. This war we chose to start violated the US Constitution, United States law, international law, and any norms of decency: we were not threatened, we did not fight war of self-defense, and utterly lied about the justification of an “imminent threat,” when 100% there was none. And now we’re talking about trying to resolve this war in our favor, by demanding surrender of the other side, and if they don’t comply, we have no moral qualms about assassinating their leaders. Again. Know this: a nation cannot behave like this and make that kind of behavior routine, and think that at some point, it will not come back to haunt us. Life has a habit of returning on your head the very thing that you do to others. I already mourn because of the loss that we’re going to suffer, but will not hesitate to point out at that time, that we ourselves lit the fuse of the day when people start assassinating American leaders.

@caps1971 @DanielLDavis1 They would argue that 1953 is when we picked this fight.

@DanielLDavis1 1979 fella, that's when they picked this fight. Every POTUS since then has said we need to make sure Iran will never get a nuke. BTW, you may want to look up the assassination of Admiral Yamamoto in 1943.

@Snigglewhip @DanielLDavis1 This post is further proof that America is the most propagandized society in the world. It holds not even a tiny sliver of truth.

"Life has a habit of returning on your head the very thing that you do to others." You bloviating, unaware know-nothing. A gov't that has been chanting "Death to America" for 47 years starts chasing rockets & nukes. Then slaughters ~45,000 of its peacemakers, leaving us to deal with their inbred, blood-thirsty jihadis. People have the "war" in Iran wrong. There is no war with Iran. Rather, Iran is being punished for a crime against humanity. 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🚀💥🔥

@XD_Negative @wroughttt @clashreport That's by design, American military industrialist are not interested in protecting this country, they're only true priority is fleecing the taxpayers.

@wroughttt @clashreport You missed the best part: we’re severely behind schedule. This missile was suppose to be showcased years ago

US Central Command has requested approval to deploy the “Dark Eagle” long-range hypersonic missile to the Middle East, aiming to target Iranian ballistic missile launchers that are now beyond the reach of current US systems. The missile has a range of about 1,725 miles and is designed for fast, precise strikes against heavily defended or time-sensitive targets. If approved, this would mark the first operational deployment of the system, which is not yet fully declared ready. Each missile costs roughly $15 million, and only a limited number are available. Source: Bloomberg

@PeacefulFathers Kids these days... They got no one to look up to.

People constantly complain about “kids these days.” Too emotional. Too distracted. Too disrespectful. Too addicted to stimulation. But children do not develop in isolation. They grow inside homes filled with stressed adults, constant screens, emotional overload, fractured attention, and nervous systems stuck in survival mode. Then society reacts in shock when children mirror the emotional environment around them. Children reflect what they live inside. Sometimes what adults criticize most in younger generations is simply a magnified reflection of the world adults created around them.

@swiftyloo @DefiantLs Mark Levine is a never trumper so I guess he's safe.

@DefiantLs Because according to Democrats, every single person who voted for Trump is a 'Nazi.'

Mark Levin: I don't have any problem with deplatforming Nazis. It means that X or Facebook says 'you're a lowlife, get off our platform.' What's wrong with that?

@GeorgeC66329722 @infantrydort The lesson from Gaddafi is that if you give into American bullying you get a bayonet up the keister.

@infantrydort Ronny Raygun's bombing of Libya (1986) turned Muammar Gaddafi into a paranoid old woman, hiding in the desert.

That is the correct take. Sincerely, -GWOT Veterans

@RichardTom60173 @infantrydort Yes we can blow up their power plants and they'll suffer, they on the other hand can plunge us into a decade long depression and we will suffer. Really suffer.

@infantrydort One power plant and/or oil facility a day should do the trick

Uhhh..... Iran "informed" the president that they were in a "state of collapse"? Someone apparently forgot to inform Iran itself, bc 14 min after President Trump posted this, Iranian news service ISNA announced Iran's Army was deployed around the country ready for more war. This appears to be another social media post disconnected from any observed reality. States don't "inform" their opponents of a collapse during wartime. Further, if there was a state of collapse, then Iran would no longer be able to control the Strait, and thus traffic would now be flowing out, unhindered by the IRGC. Yet, that does not appear to be the case, as there are presently zero reports of a collapse of the Iranian state. There is a way to get the SOH open, however, but it will only happen when *both* blockades are removed. That will only happen when Washington is willing to enter into a give-and-take diplomatic engagement with Tehran, meaning both sides will have to come out with something they want. And just to emphasize the obvious: that would require President Trump to *give* something of value to Iran in order to *get* something of value from Iran. So far the president has only been willing to *demand* submission by Iran. The longer that behavior continues, the longer Iran will NOT unilaterally submit by opening the Strait to US-desired traffic. It remains that both blockades will have to be lifted, and that ALL traffic, Arab and Persian, will be free to travel - or the blockades will continue.

@alphafox Yes

So is the shooter dead or alive? I can't get a straight answer.

@HappyCrow32148 @HealthRanger So oil is flowing freely through the strait? Ah good news.

@astrayskydiver @HealthRanger These "targets" are now controlling the region.

Battleships are obsolete. LMAO. Trump still thinks it's the 1980s. Iran, China and Russia are building hypersonic missiles, drones and drone carriers. Trump is building two giant targets for those drones: "Battleships." You sank my battleship!

@mdubowitz Don't forget we also won the Tet offensive.

If you’d told me a few years ago this is where we’d be on Iran, I’d have said you were high: 1. Nuke program set back years. Enrichment and reprocessing gutted, weaponization sites destroyed, Fordow inoperable, Natanz in ruins, a generation of senior nuclear scientists eliminated. 2. Ballistic missile program crippled. Monthly production down from 100 to near zero. Roughly half the regime’s missiles and launchers destroyed. The IRGC Aerospace Force commander who ran the missile enterprise dead. 3. Air defenses devastated. American and Israeli airpower dominating Iranian skies, with strike aircraft operating over the country with near impunity. 4. Full economic warfare. Not just OFAC sanctions anymore, but military pressure layered on top: naval blockade, near-zero oil exports, choked imports, wrecked steel and petrochemical sectors, triple-digit inflation, and a currency that is effectively worthless. 5. Regime decapitation. Khamenei dead. Larijani dead. Hundreds of senior IRGC, intelligence, military, and Basij commanders dead including the IRGC commander-in-chief, the armed forces chief of staff, and the Aerospace Force commander. Mojtaba Khamenei inheriting a hollowed-out regime with no supreme authority and a gutted command structure. 6. The region turning on Tehran. Gulf states shutting down the sanctions-busting, money-laundering, and financial escape routes the regime has relied on for years. No Arab capital willing to throw Iran a lifeline. China and Russia providing limited support. 7. Proxy network shattered. Hezbollah and Hamas heavily degraded. Houthi political leadership taking direct Israeli strikes. The “Axis of Resistance” and “ring of fire” are now more slogans than real threats. 8. Syrian corridor severed. Assad is gone. The new government in Damascus is actively blocking Iranian arms transfers to Hezbollah: arresting smugglers and publicly declaring Syria will no longer serve as a transit corridor for Tehran’s terrorists. The land bridge to the Mediterranean that took decades to build is effectively closed. 9. Lebanon pivoting west. With Hezbollah battered and resupply choked, Israel and Lebanon have opened direct peace talks for the first time since 1983, aimed at a permanent agreement and Hezbollah’s disarmament. Beirut now asserting that the Lebanese armed forces alone are responsible for national defense. This is a direct repudiation of Hezbollah’s “resistance” claim. TBD. 10. Deterrence exposed as a bluff. Four direct attacks on Israel — April 2024, October 2024, June 2025, March 2026 — failed to impose strategic cost and instead triggered heavy retaliation. Iran couldn’t even use Syria as a launchpad. 11.Economy hollowed out from within. Power shortages, water crises, factory shutdowns, pension unrest, and mass protests. Nationwide demonstrations erupted in December 2025 after a year of economic freefall, with bazaaris, oil workers, and truckers, the regime’s traditional support base, joining strikes across all 31 provinces. Running out of oil storage space. Fuel shortages. The worst crisis since 1979. 12. Scientific and technical brain drain. Beyond the nuclear experts, Iran has lost a generation of irreplaceable expertise in missile design, centrifuge engineering, and weapons development. The survivors are harder to recruit and easier to deter. 13. Naval power decimated. The regular navy shattered, IRGC navy taking growing losses as CENTCOM moves to reopen Hormuz. And against all of this: the regime forced to play its Hormuz card at its weakest possible moment when the U.S. has options instead of when we didn’t: namely, Tehran with nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, hundreds of thousands of attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions of dollars to harden its economy. That’s the strategic picture. It’s extraordinary. Much more to do but I can’t comprehend how much has been achieved.

@JensChristiansn @sentdefender @MillennialMacro To the extent we have allies in Asia, it's because the United States Navy ensures the free flow of energy to the east. Now that we've been proven incapable of that, our alliances will not last.

@sentdefender @MillennialMacro Do you think China will attack Taiwan when their oil reserves are being depleted and the US has three carrier strike groups in the ME already doing a blockade? I doubt they want to make things worse than they already are. The blockade is a nightmare for China.

The United States has burned through so many munitions during the Iran War, to include well over 1,000 BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) as well as 1,500 to 2,000 critical air-defense missiles utilized by both the Army and Navy, that some administration officials increasingly assess that America couldn’t fully execute contingency plans to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion if it occurred in the near term, U.S. officials tell the Wall Street Journal.

@JensChristiansn @sentdefender @MillennialMacro I don't think China will have to attack Taiwan, clearly they've already figured out that we can't protect them and we can't keep oil flowing to Asia. They will rejoin the mainland voluntarily and they'll do it relatively soon.

@HappyCrow32148 @HealthRanger Large blue water navies as a method of projecting force are relic of the past. To peer and near peer enemies they are just targets.

@HappyCrow32148 @HealthRanger I'm old enough to recall that the first Navy that refused to open the strait of Hormuz was the US Navy. Our ships all need to stay a thousand kilometers away from the coast of Iran to avoid being sunk.

@ProfJMHuang @JanetteSal12018 @GFreiNews The Russians don't fight speedy western maneuver warfare. Maybe read a book on deep battle theory.

@astrayskydiver @JanetteSal12018 @GFreiNews Was putin intended to finish his job in two days? No?

Russland hat 1,5 Millionen Gefallene und die Ukraine 500.000, behauptete heute wieder einmal ein prominenter Account. Bereits zu Beginn des Krieges waren die Opferzahlen 10–15 zu 1 zugunsten Russlands gegenüber der Ukraine. So etwas erfuhr man, wenn man damals Vorlesungen von AfD-Politikern zuhörte, die diese Infos aus dem deutschen Verteidigungsausschuss hatten. Der Grund dafür ist ganz einfach: Russland war von Anfang an der Ukraine 20 zu 1 in der Artilleriestärke überlegen. Wenn also die Ukraine fünf Artilleriegranaten schießen konnte, flogen ihr 100 entgegen. In allen anderen Waffenkategorien war Russland ebenfalls mindestens 10 zu 1 bis zu 15 zu 1 überlegen. Zusätzlich hatte Russland gigantische Altbestände an Munition aus dem Kalten Krieg, die aufgearbeitet werden konnten, und das gesamte Militär war in den letzten zehn Jahren durch Putin modernisiert worden. Nach einem anfänglichen Kriegsgewirr von einigen Wochen, bis sich die Frontlinien stabilisiert hatten, gingen die Russen in einen äußerst konservativen Abnutzungskrieg über. Stellungen der Ukrainer wurden mit Artillerie zu Großraumparkplätzen heruntergebombt, bis man das, was übrig war, eroberte. Seitdem gewinnt Russland durchgehend an allen Fronten kontinuierlich, mit extrem wenigen Ausnahmen. Und zuletzt ist die medizinische Versorgung der Ukrainer eine Vollkatastrophe, während die russische funktioniert. Es ist ausgeschlossen, dass es auf russischer Seite mehr Verluste gibt als auf ukrainischer. Es gibt keinen einzigen Grund, aus dem man so etwas schließen könnte. Konservativ geschätzt ist der Unterschied mindestens 4 zu 1 bei ukrainischen Gefallenen und Versehrten zu russischen, vermutlich aber wesentlich mehr. In einem Artikel vom Februar 2025 hatte ich mit 1,2 Millionen gefallenen Ukrainern gerechnet und das auch mit OSINT-Leuten rückgesprochen, die zu ähnlichen Einschätzungen gelangt waren. Inzwischen dürften es eher in Richtung 2 Millionen gehen. Die Ukraine hat eine Generation verheizt. Warum sonst fahren seit über zwei Jahren Presspatrouillen durch die Städte der Ukraine, um jeden Mann in einem Alter, in dem er noch aufrecht laufen kann, einzufangen, um ihn an der Front zu verheizen? Und mit dieser Einschätzung liege ich meiner Meinung nach richtig, denn die Ukraine kämpft seit vier Jahren an einer 1.200 Kilometer langen Frontlinie in einem permanenten Granaten- und Drohnenregen gegen einen Gegner, der ihr in Masse, Klasse, Technologie, Ausrüstung und Fortschritt weit überlegen ist. Der Krieg war bereits am ersten Tag mit einer 100%igen Garantie verloren. Da er so lukrativ für unsere Regierungen (Kickback) und Selenskyjs Freunde und Familie ist, wird damit enden, dass der Ukraine einfach die Männer ausgehen, denn Frieden will ganz offensichtlich niemand. gfrei.news/ukrainekrieg/

@angertab Hard to throw a sucker punch and then claim you're the good guy.

You might not have voted for new wars, but you voted for "Peace through strength". IDK what some of you thought "strength" meant, but it damn sure wasn't negotiating with terrorists, it means blasting them to HELL!